ZURICH.- From 11 March to 22 May the Kunsthaus Zürich presents an exhibition entitled ‘Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Seeing’. Sight is the foundation of all visual art, and no artist has focused so centrally on the process of seeing as Albe…
Exhibition of Works by Multi-Talented Artist Robert Rehfeldt on View at Weserburg Museum
BREMEN.- Robert Rehfeldt was one of the most well-known and most important artists in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) of the 1970s and ’80s. He was a draughtsman, graphic artist, painter, filmmaker, action artist, visual poet and mail artist….
Kunstmuseum Basel Exhibition Focuses on the Formative Period of Warhol as a Painter
BASEL.- After a successful career in advertising illustration, Andy Warhol (b. 1928) decided in the early 1960s to work as an independent artist. The world of consumption, of the media and mass industry remained his central interest. The exhibition at …
Ed Ruscha’s Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others at Sprüth Magers
BERLIN.- Sprüth Magers present an exhibition of work by Ed Ruscha in Berlin, featuring early photographs, drawings as well as two filmic works. Since the early 1960s, Ed Ruscha has created an extensive painterly, graphical, and photographic oeuvre. Ru…
Ed Ruscha’s Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others at Sprüth Magers
BERLIN.- Sprüth Magers present an exhibition of work by Ed Ruscha in Berlin, featuring early photographs, drawings as well as two filmic works. Since the early 1960s, Ed Ruscha has created an extensive painterly, graphical, and photographic oeuvre. Ru…
Van Gogh Museum Shows Works by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Unknown’ Brother’
AMSTERDAM.- In its annual presentation in the
Van
Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum is showing a selection of works by Marcel
Duchamp’s
‘unknown’ brother Gaston Duchamp, who went by the pseudonym of Jacques
Villon.
Jacques Villon was a pa…
Van Gogh Museum Shows Works by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Unknown’ Brother
AMSTERDAM.- In its annual presentation in the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum is showing a selection of works by Marcel Duchamp’s ‘unknown’ brother Gaston Duchamp, who went by the pseudonym of Jacques Villon. Jacques Villon was a paint…
Renowned Multi-faceted German Artist Sigmar Polke Dies at Age 69
Bloomberg News – Sigmar
Polke, one of Germany’s best-known
artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard
Klein
said in a phone interview. Polke, a painter, graphic artist and
photographer,
was “one of t…